Pedro Nuno Santos, deputy, former Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and former Minister of Infrastructure, is running for the PS leadership and is about to announce it.
The announcement could happen today or guaranteed in the coming days. Pedro Nuno, 46 years old, economist by training, former leader of JS, will have as one of his main flags the demarcation related to the coastal heritage (he resigned as Minister of Infrastructure in December 2022 and shortly afterwards as director of broken ).
In the 2015-2019 parliamentary term, he was the main ‘hub’ in the PS of the negotiations within the ‘apparatus’ between the PS, the PCP, the Left Bloc and the PEV, and subsequently he was State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs. Enthusiastic about these kinds of agreements, he has been aware of his ambitions to succeed Costa in the leadership of the party since at least 2018. He leads the left wing of the PS and has been building a support network within the party for some time.
Pedro Nuno Santos could face the current Minister of the Interior, José Luís Carneiro, in his candidacy for the PS leadership.
Carneiro told Lusa news agency today that he has not yet made a decision on his possible candidacy for the PS leadership, adding that he has received support from activists and independent citizens.
This position was conveyed by José Luís Carneiro, current Minister of the Interior and former Deputy Secretary General of the Socialists, hours before the meeting of the PS National Political Commission, scheduled for 9 p.m., which will chart the paths of this conflict to plan out. party after the departure of António Costa from his position as Prime Minister and Secretary General of the PS.
“I have thought about it, but I have not made a decision yet. I have received statements of support from activists, sympathizers and many independent citizens. I have just maintained a calm assessment,” stated José Luís Carneiro, one of the main members of the so-called moderate wing of the PS.
José Luís Carneiro noted that “an interinstitutional dialogue is underway that must be respected because its aim is to safeguard national interests.”
“The stability of the country, in the face of an extremely demanding international framework, must be everyone’s priority,” he warned.
He also said that “a meeting and decision of the party bodies will take place later.”
“With peace of mind and at the level of your organs, [o PS] will make its decisions democratically. After these decisions by the authorities themselves, I will evaluate and decide. I will decide based on my conscience and the interests of my country,” he added.
Source: DN
